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Ever since John Grisham left the courtroom for the best-seller list, publishers have been paying large sums for fictionalized legal and criminal expertise. January alone saw high-profile books from Linda Fairstein, a 25-year veteran prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes unit, as well as Bill Bonanno, an ex-mobster, and Joe Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired...
Though von Korff said science fiction would always “to some extent be a fringe culture,” he maintained that Vericon has a broad appeal...
Vericon isn’t the only conference celebrating science fiction being held in the area this year. Last weekend, 2,500 fans attended Arisia 2005, another local science fiction convention. Other conventions are scheduled for February, March and April in the Boston area. Moreover, until recently the Cambridge Public Library housed the most extensive public science fiction collection in the state...
...People used to think you were weird or dodgy if you read science fiction,” said Buzz Harris, the chairman of Arisia...
Ruth Evenson, the manager of Pandemonium Books in Harvard Square, credits the marketing industry and a “media driven” world for the rise in the genre’s popularity. Though she said the reading population was dropping, science fiction has expanded with ease into other mediums. Computer and video games, graphic novels and manga have repackaged many of science fiction’s themes for a younger, modern audience...